Consider one prophecy in Deuteronomy 28, which is aimed at the modern descendants of ancient Israel, of which America is chief. This promise is made to the nation that obeys God: “The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow” (verse 12). There too is this warning to the nation that disobeys God: “The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him …” (verses 43-44).

America’s $35 trillion debt is a flashing sign: This nation is not receiving the blessing of obedience but the curse for disobedience. The debt proves America is sinning. Can you recognize it?

This is just one warning sign among many. Runaway immigration is a curse. Racial division is a curse. Upside-down and splintered families are a curse. So too are cities strewn with drugged-out homeless people. Physical and mental disease. Environmental disasters. Agricultural blights. Craven, foolish and corrupt leaders. Foreign infiltration, meddling and sabotage. Military impotence and defeat. These are curses.

Many people are praying for God to bless America. But before He can answer those prayers, America needs to fulfill the conditions to receive those blessings. Deuteronomy 28 begins, “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee …” (verses 1-2).

Instead, the Bible prophesies a cursed future, politically, economically, morally and militarily, for a nation that has turned from the God who gave it its abundant blessings to begin with. (For a thorough scriptural study of these prophecies—and to see the ultimately inspiring reason for which God is bringing them to pass—request a free copy of Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.)